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Forever Knight: The Third Season (1995)
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Movie Review by The Gravedigger
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02.19.08
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This third and final season of the vampire detective television show is much darker than the previous years, starting with two-parter episode BLACK BUDHA, in which Nick's partner Schanke, along with his boss, are killed in a plane crash. Nick gets a new partner with Tracy Vetter (Lisa Ryder of ANDROMEDA), who is new to homicide work. There's also a new captain, Joe Reese, who is probably the best Captain the series has had. Some new vampires are introduced, who become regulars, such as Vashon, who was created four hundred years before when he was a Spanish Explorer. He becomes a love interest for Vetter. Also, the episodes are more weird and intriguing than in previous years, such as FRANCESCA, in which a man realizes he's the reincarnation of an evil woman vampire who was killed by Nick two hundred years ago. Another story deals with a woman who has three personalities, one of them a vampire, yet is able to walk in sunlight when she's in her human personality. Nick also has a few slip-ups and ends up drinking human blood…and comes to the realization that he can't escape his nature, no matter how he tries. In THE HUMAN FACTOR, his former lover, Jeanette returns…and she's become human and Nick desperately wants to know how, as that's his goal…to become fully human again.. The episode explores how this happened and how much her character has changed. It's one of the best episodes of the entire series.
Lacroix (Nigel Bennett) is made much less of a bad guy, becoming Nick's friend once again, and we get some insight to Lacroix's background, particularly in ASHES TO ASHES, when his daughter, Divia, the one who turned him, shows up to wreak havoc on his associates. She may look like a little girl but she's evil. Also, one of the better episodes to date.
Whereas, many of the previous years episodes were lighter, primarily because of the comic interaction between Knight and former partner Schanke, this year is dead serious—and gets darker as it progresses. In fact, almost all of the major characters are killed off in the last several episodes, which I've never seen done in a series before. In LAST KNIGHT, the final episode of the series, where you think he'd live happily ever after with is love interest, Dr. Natalie Lambert (Catherine Disher), Nick ends up doing something terrible and it's something he can't live with…
Although season three isn't as "fun" as the previous years, it's better written and directed, and the producers had the balls to end it in the most final manner possible.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - 0 votes cast total
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